Giorno Tre Friday 13th July
Packed and ready, we were off on the Autostrada by 10.30am after a quick trip to the local supermarket for drink and fruit. The journey down to Bologna was uneventful until the navigator decided to advise the driver to come off one stop too soon. Italian road signs are confusing at the best of times, but eventually we had located the tangentziale (ring road) and the sign for Borgo Panigale – the home of Ducati. Having visited the place two years ago on our first trip to Italy, the road was at least familiar and the walk from the car park to the barrier entrance was filled with anticipation. It was not Saturday, (day we had travelled there before), it was not midday (when they close) what could go wrong? Well, it turned out you now have to book – OK and we needed to do that at 2.00pm. We headed for the nearest supermarket and a spot of ‘hamburger a cheval’ (that’s a bit how it tasted) for lunch and waited for 2.00pm to arrive. We should have taken more notice of the date, Friday the 13th as we found out by 2.00pm that there were no spaces left today. I felt really sorry for Graham and his disappointment, but the good news was, we could visit the factory at 11.00am the next morning, hooray!!
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